Grand Designs Season 5 Episode 4 Synopsis

John Cadney and Marnie Moon have never had a permanent home. For 16 years they've camped on land owned by Marnie's parents because they could never afford to buy a house in the area where they live. So John, a carpenter, rolled his sleeves up and decided to build a house for his family with his bare hands.

After much searching for the right kind of house they settled on an environmentally friendly four-bedroom log cabin. The whole thing was imported from Finland as hundreds of pre-cut bits of wood. All John had to do is figure out how it all fits together!

Grand Designs Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Revisited - Edinburgh: 19th Century Sandstone House
• s05e02 - Peckham: The Sliding Glass Roof House
• s05e03 - Gloucester: The 16th Century Farmhouse
• s05e04 - Kent: Finnish Log Cabin
• s05e05 - Revisited - Hackney: The Terrace Conversion
• s05e06 - Revisited - Waterloo: The Violin Factory
• s05e07 - Devon: Shaped Like a Curvy Seashell
• s05e08 - Revisited - Sussex: The Woodsmans Cottage
• s05e09 - Belfast: A 21st Century Answer to the Roman Villa
• s05e10 - Devon: Miami Style Beach House
• s05e11 - Carmarthen: The Eco-House

Grand Designs Show Summary

Grand Designs is a Channel 4 TV series covering unusual architectural house-building projects, presented by Kevin McCloud.

The properties featured in the series vary wildly from homes underground to converted water towers, with the only common factor being that they're all rather unusual or extravagant in some way.